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What happened to change this Cow Town into a cultural mecca?

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The Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ (DCPA) third annual Regional High School Playwriting Competition culminated June 17 with two free, fully-staged performances of playwright Kendra Knapp’s Sonder.

Last fall, DCPA Education staff members conducted 145 classroom workshops for 3,100 Colorado students. That resulted in 212 one-act play submissions from young writers all over the state. DCPA artistic, literary and educational professionals then blindly judged the submissions, selecting 10 semifinalists. Of those, three were selected to have their plays read by professional actors at the 2016 Colorado New Play Summit. They were: • Gabrielle Moore, D’Evlyn High School, Divinity of Hell • Jessica Wood, Denver Christian School, Dark River • Kendra Knapp, Valor Christian High School, Sonder Knapp was a top-10 finalist last year. This year, her newest play was singled out for full production. Sonder follows a community of young people who are seeking real connection, but from the safety and distance of the internet.

DCPA Director of Education Allison Watrous said the purpose of the teen writing initiative is to advance literacy, creativity, writing and communication through playwriting.

“This program is all about inspiring the passion of playwriting in the next generation of writers regardless of their career aspirations,” she said. Knapp, for example, is headed to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida where she will study aerospace engineering.

“But I will probably still be writing, too,” Knapp said.

The three finalists each receive a cash scholarship of $250. In addition, each teacher of the three finalists receives a $250 gift certificate for books, supplies or other teaching tools.

At a time when much of the national theatre dialogue is focused on the lack of female representation, it was telling that all three of the student finalists are young women.

“I think that‘s great, especially because it was picked blind,” said Wood. “We know we were not being picked just because we are women — we were picked because we have

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talent, and we have abilities, and it’s great that the DCPA is helping us realize this.”

Added Moore: “I really appreciate the DCPA for not feeling the need to fill a quota, and that we’re being appreciated for our talent, no matter what age or gender or background we come from.”

Knapp says she’s used to facing prejudice as a woman, a Hispanic, a person of faith and a theatre kid. “I’m used to people meeting me and then having this taste in their mouth where they go, ‘You’re from a Christian school? And you’re into theatre?’ I’m used to that attitude. But then I come here to the Denver Center and they just say, “OK, let’s get to work.” And I’m like, “Wait, you’re not going to ask me about my political views? Where’s the interrogation?”

Each finalist was mentored during the Colorado New Play Summit by a commissioned playwright with the DCPA Theatre Company.

“Rogelio [Martinez] had some ideas and insights for the play that hadn’t been presented to me by any other voice,” said Knapp. “It’s just a really good feeling to get feedback from someone you know is established who says to you genuinely, ‘This is good.’ ” Submissions for the 2017 High School Playwriting Competition are accepted starting Oct 1. For more information, visit denvercenter.org/playwright.

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Much has been made of the mirrored relationship between Man and Maker in Mary Shelley’s enduring Gothic classic, Frankenstein. Creator and Cadaver.

Father and Son. Master and Slave. God and Man. The DCPA Theatre Company’s new staging explores a whole new and incendiary duality: Black and White.

Frankenstein is, of course, the familiar story of the young science student who assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses. In 2011, London’s National Theatre did some Frankensteinlike reanimating of its own when it breathed astonishing new life into Shelley’s nearly 200-yearold horror story. Noted film director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting) and playwright Nick Dear had their two leading actors alternate nightly playing the roles of Victor Frankenstein and his creation.

Returning audiences not only got to consider how differently the two actors approached the same roles, they got to witness Father become Son. Master become Slave. Man become God. The National Theatre staging was a sensation.

Now, five years later, the DCPA becomes the first theatre company in North America to revivify the London creation. Sam Buntrock, Director of the Denver production, and Producing Artistic Director Kent Thompson also will have their actors trade roles. But there’s more. At a time when racial tensions in America are at their highest levels in 40 years, acclaimed actors Sullivan Jones and Mark Junek have been hired to play Frankenstein and the creature. Jones is black. Junek is white.

And Thompson knows that may take on added visual significance with today’s audiences, because one more vital relationship between the story’s two archetypal characters is dominance and submission.

Thompson is often known to cast actors of color to play characters traditionally played by white actors. So that’s nothing new. But in a year of ever-escalating racial tension in America, yes, Thompson says, he is trying to make a statement.

A bold one about “the complex ways people from different cultures and classes relate to one another,” Thompson said. “And I’m highlighting that by having actors of two different races switching in these two roles.”

A notable departure from Shelley’s source novel is the newly adapted play’s primary focus on The Creature — grotesque as he is, and yet childlike in his innocence. The real horror of Shelley’s story is not those silly (and jettisoned) neck bolts made famous by Boris Karloff. It is the doctor’s cruel rejection of his bewildered creature and casting him out into a hostile world. Meeting with cruelty

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wherever he goes, The Creature grows increasingly vengeful. And that all will inevitably look different to a contemporary audience depending on which performance they attend. And that’s OK, says Thompson.

“I don't know that we’ll ever be a post-racial society,” he said. “But I hope one day we will be post-racist.”

The supreme challenge of two actors having to bring two entire characters to life on alternating nights is that it affords a rich and rare creative opportunity for potential audiences.

“In the original London production the reviewers and the audiences were fascinated at how differently they approached each character,” Thompson said.

“They were not the exact same performance, and the dynamic between them changed.”

Producing Artistic Director Kent Thompson is trying to make a statement about “the complex ways people from different cultures and classes relate to one another. And I’m highlighting that by having actors of two different races switching in these two roles.”

New York Times critic Ben Brantley found it thrilling to attend The National Theatre's Frankenstein on successive nights in London. “Watching each of those actors find their feet and test their body parts is such a dizzy high point that it can’t be topped,” he wrote. “And their approaches were just different enough to make you want to see both.”

Those who see both Jones and Junek will see that Frankenstein continues to strike disturbingly urgent chords that go far beyond race and encompassing “otherness” of all kinds.

“There are many other things that make The Creature scary,” said Thompson.

“There’s his deformity. That he can’t talk. That he seems to be brutish.”

“Otherness” tends to evoke ignorance, cruelty and fear, said Thompson, who is fascinated by what makes “otherness” frightening to other people in the first place, be it disability, skin color…or even a person’s presidential preference.

“All of that fear multiplies once you start to consider race and culture and age and political opinions,” said Thompson. “It’s easy to demonize the person on the other side of an issue. That is going on all over America today. The challenge we are left is: ‘How do we stop demonizing each other?’”

Thompson pointed out that the man in power in this scenario — the omnipotent doctor — may fall somewhere squarely on what we would call “the autism spectrum” today.

“He’s a genius, but his ability to emotionally respond and psychologically understand the consequences of his actions has been thwarted,” Thompson said. “Yet, he holds the power to create life in his hands as surely as a gun would hold the power to end it.”

But while the landmark London staging offered audiences a whole new way of looking at the Frankenstein myth — as will the DCPA’s team of designers and actors — “None of that profoundly changes the major theme of the piece,” Thompson said. Which is, essentially: “Is it even ethically appropriate for man to create life? I mean, once you start down that road, how do you stop?”

John Moore is the DCPA’s Senior Arts Journalist. Follow his coverage of the Colorado theatre community at denvercenter.org/news-center

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COSTUME COLUMN The DCPA’s Costume Crafts Director Kevin Copenhaver is knee deep in necromancy preparing for the Theatre Company’s upcoming production of Frankenstein.

Fresh off his Henry Award-winning costume designs from last season’s Sweeney Todd, Copenhaver is taking inspiration from elevated, haute couture fashion and the films of Guillermo del Toro as he prepares to dive into the world of Mary Shelley’s creature.

“I always find myself gravitating back to the ‘bad boys of fashion,’” said Copenhaver. “I’m very inspired by Alexander McQueen and John Galliano.

In their designs, the volume has been turned up to 14. It’s a highly theatrical haute couture.”

As he creates his own Creature, Copenhaver is moving away from the nuts and bolts movie monster. Instead, he’s interested in exploring the “built-in fear of something alien, something that doesn’t look like you.” He’s currently playing around with contact lenses to find the striking yellow eyes described

by Shelley in the novel.

“When you think about the way the original story was conceived, this group of friends sitting around trying to one up each other by telling a ghost story or a scary tale, that alone gives you license to play and interpret,” said Copenhaver.

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DENVER FAVORITE GEOFFREY KENT DIRECTING AN ACT OF GOD

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A “What’s joyful to me is that through the course of the play, we get to watch God learn something about himself — and that humanizes him.”

—GEOFFREY KENT, DIRECTOR

An Act of God is a new comedy that imagines The Almighty is coming down to Earth to adapt the dusty 10 Commandments for these modern times. But because the very majesty of God might simply be too much for we mere mortals to handle, He takes on the far more approachable human form of a fabulously fun actor with just enough snark and charm. Imagine Jim Parsons or Sean Hayes — two popular TV sitcom actors who have played the role on Broadway.

“Think of God as the perfect host of the perfect cocktail party…and he has the mic,” said Geoffrey Kent, a longtime actor and stage-combat expert who will be making his DCPA directorial debut when An Act of God premieres regionally at the Garner Galleria Theatre on October 15. Kent calls the show part stand-up comedy…and part “Oprah.”

In An Act of God, Kent said, “We get to watch God appear before us as a reflection of who we are now.”

And who are we now?

“Oh, we can be kind of terrible sometimes, and we can also be wonderful,” Kent said with a laugh. “And the same thing can be said of God.” An Act of God, written by 13-time Emmy winner David Javerbaum of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show, is laugh-a-minute funny," Kent said.

“I think it pokes fun at the theist and the atheist equally,” Kent said. “But a comedy can ask meaningful questions just as well as a drama can. What’s joyful to me is that through the course of the play, we get to watch God learn something about himself — and that humanizes him.”

Kent is a Colorado native who attended Centaurus High School in Lafayette and the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley. He is a self-made theatre man who debuted as an actor with the DCPA Theatre Company in Anthony Powell’s Hamlet in 2002. “I played Sailor No. 2,” said Kent. “And there was no Sailor No. 1. So basically I was Sailors No. 1 and No. 2 combined.”

But Kent is used to combining job responsibilities. He started teaching classes with DCPA Education back in 1996, and he also is President of the Society of American Fight Directors — the largest organization of stage combatants in the world. He is resident fight director for both the DCPA Theatre Company and Colorado Shakespeare Festival, where this summer he directed a genderbending The Comedy of Errors and appeared as Iachimo in Cymbeline and Achilles in Troilus & Cressida.

Next stop: Garner Galleria Theatre where he grew up attending long-running shows such as Always…Patsy Cline, Forever Plaid and I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. He'll be directing Wesley Taylor as God along with local favorites Steven Cole Hughes, Erik Sandvold and Steven J. Burge.

“I never thought I would ever have an opportunity to direct a show at the Galleria Theatre,” Kent said, “and it’s thrilling.”

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The Glass Menagerie is not Tennessee Williams’ first play. Nor his second. Not even his third. But it is an early play and the first one to provoke the kind of stir that awakens the public to the sense that they might be witnessing the birth of an important new playwright.

Life does not often allow us to be so suddenly and miraculously aware of something big occurring.

Because it is derived from his short story Portrait of a Girl in Glass, The Glass Menagerie is achingly autobiographical and remains Williams’ most confessional and poetic play.

Structurally, it depicts the uneasy three-way tension among Tom (the Tennessee Williams stand-in), his mother Amanda Wingfield (based on Williams’ mother, Edwina, a flailing, aging Southern belle, abandoned by her husband to rear their two children alone), and Tom’s gentle but damaged sister Laura (based on Williams’ sister Rose).

Tom adores Laura but is helpless to rehabilitate her (just as Williams was tormented by guilt over a disastrous lobotomy that doctors performed on Rose when she was barely in her 20s). Tom is the observer — the play’s narrator — who views this family triangle as the stone that keeps him tethered under water and unable to breathe.

Amanda, a materfamilias in spite of herself, refuses to acknowledge her social and financial destitution or Laura’s physical deficiencies (a bad limp). She fantasizes about finding her a proper husband and counts on Tom to help her find one. Tom, meanwhile, is choking on the task — torn between his familial love for these women, while yearning to break loose.

The 1944 original production, staged by Eddie Dowling and Margo Jones and featuring Laurette Taylor in a legendary turn as Amanda, caused a small earthquake during its Chicago debut.

The wide-ranging enthusiasm surrounding it encouraged a March 1945 transfer to Broadway, where The New York Times’ Brooks Atkinson used two words that remain key to describing the play: “lovely and merciful.”

Written in a fresh and freer lyrical style, Menagerie’s wistful tone and filmy quality inspired designer Jo Mielziner to also break out of the confines of theatrical realism for both the set and lighting of the Broadway version. Menagerie became an immediate hit and won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Best Play award of 1945.

No one was more surprised than Williams who retained a tenuous (and diffident) relationship with success throughout his life.

Ina Marlowe, the Menagerie’s director at The Denver Center, has her own memorable connection to the play. Two years out of grad school, she staged a sign-language version of it in a tiny theatre outside Chicago.

“I’m not saying there’s no pain, guilt at leaving Laura, frustration at the difficulty of communicating with his mother…

There’s heartbreak everywhere…”

—INA MARLOWE, DIRECTOR “Tom will not be in a Merchant Marine uniform,” she said. “There will be the clicking of a typewriter in the background to remind us he’s a writer telling the story of a family full of love, frustration and dreams — too much love in a sense — and all of them trying to escape their reality.”

Williams, who had a compulsion to do both, needed to write the way other people need to drink. “He had to write,” Marlowe insisted, speaking of the blurred lines between Williams’ reality and the play. “He has to relive the experiences so as to be able to leave [his mother and sister]

knowing the meanness and pettiness will disappear and only beauty and truth will remain. He must see them as iconic so he can leave them behind....”

What about the pain this causes?

“I’m not saying there’s no pain, Tom’s guilt at leaving Laura, his frustration at the difficulty of communicating with his mother.

There’s heartbreak everywhere….

Even the gentleman-caller causes pain. But because Tom is a writer, he gets to the point where he must be able to leave if he’s to survive.”

To achieve her goals in practical terms, Marlowe wanted things “the color of memory” — faded by time.

The floor is lit from below, suggesting a vestigial reality. “Williams talks about the lighting as an El Greco lighting, almost an interior light, a spiritual illumination.”

Laura’s glass animals are suspended in space. “She is, in effect, enveloped by them whenever she enters [the menagerie] to pick one up. They’re her escape — they and her father’s phonograph. Tom has his writing, Amanda has her memories of those 17 gentleman-callers…”

Dissatisfied with the way the presence of the missing Dad too often is handled, Marlowe made sure his portrait would be prominent.

“The place is haunted by the people who have left,” she said. “Loneliness inhabits the space between the characters.

“I want to create memory with clean, simple images. This play is so strong that no matter what twist or concept you place on it, it teaches you something about all relationships. I feel fortunate to be involved with a piece of literature that brings up such a well of emotions — so delicate, so human, so deep, so universal.”

Sylvie Drake was Director of Media Relations & Publications for The Denver Center for the Performing Arts 1994-2014. She is a former theatre critic and columnist for the Los Angeles Times and current contributor to culturalweekly.com.

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“I love plays of language and character,” she said on the phone from her home in Conifer. “I’ve taught Williams, read him, staged him, seen the films. When I researched Menagerie, I read both published versions — the New Directions and the Dramatists Play Service.”

In order to deliver the dreaminess that Williams had in mind, Marlowe eliminated the script’s cluttering screens and scrims in favor of an upto-date stagecraft that didn’t even exist in the 1940s.

COMING UP FROM BROADWAY:

FINDING NEVERLAND Peter Pan continues to fly high in our collective pop-culture consciousness, says Finding Neverland co-composer Eliot Kennedy, because he’s taken wing inside our DNA. Playwright J.M. Barrie may have imagined Peter Pan a century ago, Kennedy said, “but it remains such a young story. It’s all about youth and young energy.”

The story of Peter Pan, Director Diane Paulus adds, is a call to anyone of any age to ask themselves: “When do we wake up and live the life that we know we need to live — not the life we think we should be living?” That, she said, is the story of Finding Neverland (playing The Buell Dec 20-Jan 1).

The innovative Broadway musical is based on the 2004 Oscar-winning film of the same name. The story follows Barrie as he summons the courage to become the writer — and the man — he yearns to be. Barrie finds his inspiration when he meets a widow and her four young sons who inspire him to conjure the magical world of Neverland.

Paulus believes the new musical is “a complete love letter to the theatre.” She cites a line from the show Captain Hook says to Barrie himself: “Go back to being what everyone expects you to be. Or you can find the courage to…write your own story.”

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With Aubrey Deeker, Kathleen McCall, Amelia Pedlow, John Skelley

SCENIC DESIGN BY Joseph P. Tilford

COSTUME DESIGN BY Meghan Anderson Doyle

DRAMATURGY BY Stephanie Prugh

CASTING BY Elissa Myers Casting / Paul Foquet, CSA

LIGHTING DESIGN BY Charles R. MacLeod

SOUND DESIGN BY Tyler Nelson

VOICE AND DIALECT COACHING BY Kathryn G. Maes, Ph.D

DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION Jeff Gifford

STAGE MANAGER Christopher C. Ewing

DIRECTED BY Ina Marlowe

The Glass Menagerie is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. on behalf of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.

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(in order of appearance) Tom......................................................................................................................................................................... AUBREY DEEKER Laura...................................................................................................................................................................... AMELIA PEDLOW Amanda...........................................................................................................................................................KATHLEEN MCCALL The Gentleman Caller........................................................................................................................................JOHN SKELLEY

Stage Manager.................................................................................................................................CHRISTOPHER C. EWING Assistant Stage Manager............................................................................................................................D. LYNN REILAND Stage Management Apprentice............................................................................................................ KAILEY BUTTRICK.

The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

There will be one 15-minute intermission.

WHO’S WHO ACTING COMPANY AUBREY DEEKER (Tom). At the Theatre Company: title role in Hamlet. International: Love’s Labor’s Lost at The Royal Shakespeare Company, UK. Regional: Thirteen productions as affiliated artist at The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC, as well as productions at Geffen Playhouse, The Kennedy Center, Signature Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, Wilma Theater, Studio Theatre, Folger Theatre, Round House, and Lincoln Center, among others. TV/Film: “The Man in the High Castle,” “True Blood,” “The Wire,” “The Mentalist,” “Backstrom,” “Crisis,” “NCIS,” “NCIS New Orleans,” “Castle,” Peter’s Plan, Distance, Leave No Marine Behind, The Seer. Awards: Multiple Helen Hayes and Barrymore Award nominations.

Training: North Carolina School of the Arts.

KATHLEEN MCCALL (Amanda). At the Theatre Company: 11 seasons. Kathleen has been a professional actress for over 30 years working on Broadway, OffBroadway, national tours, and at regional theatres throughout the country, as well as in television and film. She is an inductee of Marquis Who’s Who of American Women in the Arts and a Lunt/Fontanne Fellowship Recipient. Training: London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. www.kathleenmccall.net AMELIA PEDLOW (Laura). At the Theatre Company: Hamlet, The Liar.

Off-Broadway: ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Red Bull Theatre Company), The Heir Apparent (Classic Stage Company), You Never Can Tell (Pearl Theatre Company). Regional:

The Metromaniacs (The Old Globe and The Shakespeare Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice (The Shakespeare Theatre); Ether Dome (La Jolla Playhouse, Hartford Stage, and Huntington Theatre Company); Legacy of Light (Cleveland Playhouse); The Diary of Anne Frank, The Tempest (Virginia Stage Company); Death of a Salesman, Sick (Chautauqua Theatre Company). TV: “The Good Wife,” “Blue Bloods,” “Shades of Blue,” and “The Blacklist.” Education: BFA, Juilliard.

JOHN SKELLEY (The Gentleman Caller).

At the Theatre Company: Debut.

Off-Broadway: The Changeling (Red Bull Theater); Desire (59E59/The Acting Company); Hamlet (as Hamlet), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet (The Acting Company). Regional credits include: 15 productions at The Guthrie Theater including Long Day’s Journey into

PLAYWRIGHT TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (Playwright) was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, where his grandfather was the local Episcopal clergyman.

When his father, a traveling salesman, moved his family to St. Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years, spending the evenings writing.

Williams entered the University of Iowa in 1938 and completed his course, at the same time holding a large number of part-time jobs of great diversity. He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his play, Battle of Angels, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for A Streetcar Named Desire and in 1955 for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Other plays include Summer and Smoke, The Rose Tattoo, Camino Real, Baby Doll, The Glass Menagerie, Orpheus Ascending, Suddenly Last Summer, The Night of the Iguana, Sweet Bird of Youth, and The Two-Character Play. Tennessee Williams died in 1983.

DIRECTOR INA MARLOWE (Director). At the Theater Company: Debut. New York: Boss Grady’s Boys (American premiere). Regional productions include: Merchant of Venice (Utah Shakespearean Festival). Chicago productions include: Moon for the Misbegotten (Jefferson Award), Belfry (American premiere), An American Daughter (Midwest premiere), Lady from Dubuque (Midwest premiere), Sister Carrie (world premiere adaptation). Founder and Producing Artistic Director of Touchstone Theatre in Chicago. Producing Artistic Director of Organic Theater Company in Chicago. She has worked with Edward Albee, Wendy Wasserstein, Sebastian Barry, Billy Roche.

ARTISTIC STAFF MEGHAN ANDERSON DOYLE (Costume Designer). At the Theatre Company: FADE, Tribes, One Night in Miami…, Appoggiatura, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Jackie & Me, The Giver, Superior Donuts, Well and Ed, Downloaded. Other Theatres: At Off-Center (Sweet & Lucky, CULT FOLLOWING seasons 1-5, Lord of the Butterflies), DCPA Cabaret (I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change! and Five Course Love). Other Theatres: Curious Theatre Company (Marcus or the Secret of Sweet, In The Red and Brown Water, Good People, The Brothers Size, A Number, Up, tempOdyssey), The Aurora Fox (Metamorphoses), National Theatre Conservatory Rep (2005-2012).

Special/Training: DCPA Theatre Company Costume Design Associate 2006-present. BA in Theatre, University of Denver; MFA in Costume Design, University of Florida.

CHARLES R. MACLEOD (Lighting Designer). At the Theatre Company: (300+ productions/34 seasons). As You Like It, One Night in Miami…, Appoggiatura, Shadowlands, black odyssey, Jackie & Me, Death of a Salesman, The 39 Steps, Reckless, When Tang Met Laika, The Diary of Anne Frank, Lydia, The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1001, Gem of the Ocean, All My Sons, A Christmas Carol, Lost Highway: The Music and Legend of Hank Williams, My Way, Forbidden Broadway, Always…Patsy Cline; Love, Janis and Girls Only, The Secret Comedy of Women.

KATHRYN G. MAES Ph.D (Voice and Dialect Coach). At the Theatre Company: FADE, The Nest, Tribes, Benediction, Appoggiatura, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Lord of the Flies, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Animal Crackers, Shadowlands, Hamlet, black odyssey, A Christmas Carol, Jackie & Me, The Most Deserving, Just Like Us, Death of a Salesman, When We Are Married, Fences, The Three Musketeers, Heartbreak House, Great Wall Story.

Other Theatres: Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal National Theatre (Arthur Miller’s American Clock).

Special/Training: Voice and Dialect Coach for numerous professional theatre companies in the United States, Head of Voice at DCPA Theatre Company. Ph.D. in Theatre Arts, University of Pittsburgh;

Advanced Diploma in Voice Studies, Central School of Speech and Drama, London, England.

ELISSA MYERS CASTING, Paul Fouquet, CSA (Casting). Three Emmy nominations and one win, and one Peabody Award for Outstanding Contribution to Television. Over 15 films for PBS. Theatre includes seven Broadway shows and 26 OffBroadway shows. Current regional casting includes Denver Center, Geva Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Magic Theatre, Arena Stage, and Arizona Theatre Company. The office has so far received 16 nominations and has won three Artios Awards for “Outstanding Achievement in Casting.”

TYLER NELSON (Sound Designer). At the Theatre Company: FADE, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Most Deserving, The Giver, and Ed, Downloaded. Off-Center: DATE*, Square of Ice, CULT FOLLOWING season 1, The L&J&J Project, Hip-Hop Jambalaya, Wii: The Ultimate Baseball Game. Other Theatres: Applebox Theatre Company (Buried Child, Summertree). Training: Bachelor’s Degree in Sound Engineering, University of Colorado Denver.

STEPHANIE PRUGH (Dramaturg). At the Theatre Company: Script Manager for The Unsinkable Molly Brown and The 12. Other theatres (various roles): La Jolla Playhouse (Indecent, Healing Wars, Without Walls Festival, Blueprints to Freedom: An Ode to Bayard Rustin, Guards at the Taj), New York Theatre Workshop (The Events).

Training: MA in Theatre, University of Colorado, Boulder.

JOSEPH P. TILFORD (Scenic Design).

At the Theatre Company: Debut. He has designed at many of America’s most prominent professional theatres including Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Goodman Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Indiana Rep, Missouri Rep, Syracuse Stage, the Old Globe, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, and Milwaukee Rep. He has taught design at Cornell, Northwestern, Wright State, and at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. His design work has been exhibited in the American Professional Exhibit at the 2007 Prague Quadrennial, and in a solo retrospective at the 50th Anniversary

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Night, Hay Fever, The Importance of Being Earnest, Macbeth; Art, And a Nightingale Sang (Westport Country Playhouse); An Inspector Calls (Pioneer Theatre Company); Desire (NY Stage and Film); Tribes (Florida Repertory Theatre). TV/Film: “Elementary,” Into Temptation. BFA, U of MN, Guthrie Theater Actor Training Program.

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STAGE MANAGEMENT CHRISTOPHER C. EWING (Production Stage Manager). At the Theatre Company: (29 seasons) Animal Crackers, Death of a Salesman, Sense & Sensibility The Musical, When We Are Married, Fences, Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash, A Christmas Carol, To Kill a Mockingbird, Dracula, Mama Hated Diesels, Eventide, A Raisin in the Sun, Quilters, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Noises Off, Plainsong, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, A Funny Thing…

Forum, The Clean House, Gem of the Ocean, A Flea in Her Ear, Crowns, Fire on the Mountain, John Brown’s Body, The Skin of Our Teeth, Almost Heaven and 2 Pianos, 4 Hands. Other Theatres: Colorado Ballet, DCPA Broadway, Bonfils Theatre. Training: BFA in Theatre Design/Technology, Loretto Heights College.

D. LYNN REILAND (Assistant Stage Manager). At the Theatre Company: (14 seasons) The Nest, Tribes, Appoggiatura, Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike, The Legend of Georgia McBride, The Most Deserving. At Off-Center: Sweet & Lucky, Perception. Other theatres: Curious Theatre Company, Phamaly Theatre Company, and Seven Devils Playwrights Conference.

EXECUTIVE STAFF KENT THOMPSON (Producing Artistic Director) is in his 12th season as Producing Artistic Director of the Theatre Company. In Denver he directed productions of Sweeney Todd, Hamlet, Just Like Us, Other Desert Cities, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Plainsong, Eventide, Benediction, Amadeus, The Liar and Measure for Measure, among others.

Three of Kent’s major accomplishments since coming to Denver have been the creation of Off-Center (innovative theatrical experiences aimed at millennial audiences), the Colorado New Play Summit (a premier national festival for new American plays), and the Women’s Voices Fund (an endowment that supports the commissioning and development of new plays by women).

Prior to moving to Denver he was Producing Artistic Director of the

Alabama Shakespeare Festival for 16 seasons. Kent created the Southern Writers’ Project, which commissioned and produced 16 world premieres during his tenure. He served eight years on the Board of Directors for Theatre Communications Group (TCG) and as president for three years. He has served on peer review panels for the NEA (also chair), TCG, The Pew Charitable Trusts, The Fulbright Scholars Program, The Wallace Funds, The Doris Duke Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, among others.

CHARLES VARIN (Managing Director) and his team are responsible for administrative, financial and business operations related to producing the Theatre Company’s season of productions and other artistic and educational initiatives. Prior to DCPA, Charles was General Manager for Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, NY and also has worked at Glimmerglass Opera, Asolo Repertory Theatre and Florida Studio Theatre.

JEFF GIFFORD (Director of Production) is in his fourth season at the DCPA and oversees every­thing you see on stage except the actors.

Guiding world premieres to their first opening night is especially gratifying and Jeff has worked on more than 35 of them. Among his favorites are Dinner with Friends, The Violet Hour, The Beard of Avon, Mr. Marmalade, and the new musical FLY. Jeff holds an MFA from California Institute of the Arts.

The Director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union.

The actors and stage managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

Backstage and Ticket Services Employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States and Canada. (or I.A.T.S.E.) The scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers in LORT Theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE. Member of the Colorado Theatre Guild

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Special thanks also to grants from Arts & Venues Denver; the Helen G. Bonfils Foundation; and contributions from corporations, foundations and individuals.

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American musicals hold a mirror up to our culture, hoping to reflect the issues of their day and the concerns of Americans. As a product of the tumultuous 1960s, the original Cabaret seduced and entertained while commenting on social issues and showing a frightening vision of our darkest potential.

The generation reared in the conservative 1950s became the counterculture youth of the ’60s, and American society was divided by volatile conflicts. The African-American civil rights movement that began in the ’50s was growing to involve large-scale nonviolent protests and civil disobedience. The National Organization for Women (NOW) was formed in 1966 in order to help gain full participation for American women in mainstream society and gain the same freedoms and privileges as American men of that time. President Lyndon B. Johnson promoted reforms to extend human rights, education, economic opportunities, and health care. Not all Americans supported these reforms, and some reacted with alarming violence. A rise of Klu Klux Klan activity in the south instigated beatings, shootings, and lynchings of activists.

Broadway was not immune to the cultural shocks of the

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era. The Broadway and Times Square district saw a rise in prostitution, adult shops, and derelicts, which created a dangerous environment for theatergoing. Production costs were rising, and Broadway producers had to raise ticket prices: a top price of $12 in 1966 was the equivalent of $86 today. Prior to the rise of rock-and-roll in the mid-’50s, show tunes were considered popular music — what played on Broadway played on the radio. By the ’60s, an entire generation was listening to rock and pop instead of show music.

Broadway needed to reinvent itself and find a new relevance, and visionary directors like Bob Fosse, Gower Champion, and the emerging Harold Prince became more prominent and, sometimes, more identified with shows than the songwriters. With the rise of the director came the “concept musical,” described by critic Martin Gottfried as a show whose music, lyrics, choreography, and scenes are woven together to create “a tapestry-like theme” or central metaphor, more important than plot. Gottfried identified West Side Story (1957), Gypsy (1959), and Fiddler on the Roof (1964), as the first important concept musicals, and Cabaret is an important title in this genre.

[Director Harold] Prince saw an opportunity to show these ties between racism in the U.S. and the rise of Nazism in the early 1930s through Cabaret.

At his first rehearsal, Prince showed the cast a photograph of a group of angry young white men taunting a crowd off-camera. The cast assumed that it was a picture of Nazi youth harassing Jews; in fact, the picture was taken that year in Chicago, and the men were taunting black tenants of an integrated housing project. For a short time, Prince thought about ending the show with a film of the march on Selma, Alabama, though he abandoned that idea.

The original idea for the show was to begin with a prologue of cabaretstyle songs to set the tone of Weimar Germany and then move into a straight play, but the team found that the songs worked better when distributed throughout the evening. As the show took shape as a more traditional musical, with some songs within book scenes, the cabaret world emerged as a central metaphor. The Brechtian device of songs that comment on the action rather than tell a story gave a central function to the Emcee character. Designer Boris Aronson conceived the production’s penultimate metaphor: a giant mirror center stage reflected the audience and reinforced the message that “it could happen here.”

After previewing in Boston, the play opened in November 1966 to great acclaim. Cabaret won eight Tony Awards, including Best New Musical, Best Direction, Best Score, and Best Featured Actor for Joel Grey as the Emcee.

The production ran nearly three years, for a total of 1165 performances, followed by international productions, a national tour, an Academy Awardwinning film, and Roundabout Theatre Company’s breakthrough revival in 1998. In its own day, and almost 50 years later, Cabaret validates the power of musical theatre to reflect a complicated world and the willingness of audiences to see ourselves in its mirror.

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Sep 27 – Oct 9 • Buell Theatre ASL interpreted, Audio described & Open Captioned performance: Oct 9 Reprinted with permission from Roundabout Theatre Company’s Upstage Guide.

Darren Criss in the Broadway production of HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH. Photo by Joan Marcus.

(lower right) Andrea Goss as Sally Bowles, (left) The 2016 National Touring cast of Roundabout Theatre Company’s CABARET. Photo by Joan Marcus.

By the early 1960s Harold Prince had a proven reputation as a producer and was emerging as a formidable director. At this time Prince was taking on the challenge of turning the play I Am a Camera into a musical, but it was not until Prince received the first draft of the libretto from Joe Masteroff that he realized this was an opportunity to tell the story parallel to contemporary problems. Prince saw an opportunity to show these ties between racism in the U.S. and the rise of Nazism in the early 1930s through Cabaret. Prince brought on writing team John Kander (composer) and Fred Ebb (lyricist), whose first show, Flora the Red Menace, had premiered the year before. The team set out to create a show about civil rights and tell audiences that what happened in Germany could happen here. (What he might not have foreseen was that parallel remaining relevant 50 years later.)

COMING UP FROM BROADWAY:

HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH From being a cult musical to rocking out the Broadway stage, Hedwig and the Angry Inch is uniting audiences as diverse as its characters. The rock ’n’ roll opera follows Hedwig, an East German singer bouncing back from a botched transgender surgery who moves to America. While searching for fame and a truer sense of self, Hedwig fronts the band The Angry Inch.

Born with a book by John Cameron Mitchell and music and lyrics by Stephen Trask, Hedwig and the Angry Inch premiered Off-Broadway in 1998 with Mitchell playing the lead role.

The 1998 production won its creators an Obie Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical. After a film adaptation in 2001 and various on-stage tours worldwide, Hedwig hit Broadway in 2014, winning four Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical. Additionally, 2014’s production won Drama Desk Awards, Drama League Awards and Outer Critics Circle Awards.

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